I have been really pushing myself these past couple days... being in Grand Marais seems to do that. I want to figure out how to paint people, and I want to push myself to become a better painter, and I know it comes down to practice and experimenting and being willing to be a newbie at something. You can never know it all. Anyone who says they're an expert is lying. You can be extremely knowledgeable about something and even have a degree (or a PHD) in it but it is impossible to know everything about it especially in a subject as personal and fraught with emotion as art.
And I like to paint dogs. I think I know how to paint dogs. But I have a really hard time painting my own damn dog.
Here's Teddy.
My other really hard subject is my muse of a son. He's just too damn adorable. So I have to paint him. What am I suppose to do?
I have to admit I like this one.
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